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Show 2 THE VOICE OF DIXIE STATE COLLEGE OF UTAH - t -- t 3 3 I 4 f 8 VOLUME XLI, NO. 18 I ' C I H t J 3 3 MTDNESDAY, FEBRUARY l, 2012 ST. GEORGE, UTAH Student Qovrnnrint seeks Face Time way for DSCSA executive council and senators to gauge student reactions to campus activities and garner information on what students would like to see at DSC as the school moves toward university status. The council and senators will be utilizing a combination of polling booths and online surveys JACOBSON Opinion Editor MATTY Jte of Dixie members be Student College are making an reach out to the to ort As-viati- body via a new jjent theyve dubbed Rime. face Time will be a uram p r Student Body President Mike Sheffield, a junior business major from St. George, is spearheading the new campaign to shrink the communication gap between students and student government. This is something weve had in the works for a few months now, he said. Its our mechanism that we want to put in place to get our fingers on the pulse of the students on campus. Sheffield said executive council members and student senators will be in charge of the surveys. He said their overall goal is to truly understand peoples feelings and opinions on particular topics. V i BY GREGORY LAYTON Staff Writer A grammar workshop is held every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in room 104 of the McDonald Building. If you want to earn - better grades on papers, i increase your writing abilities and become more grammatically fit, then the Writing Center staff has a workshop for i r " 4 ) or 1 i . members host events ,1SA Black History Month r, Hong story 9. Doctor prescribes elationship advice to DSC students will receive advice on dating and ktionships just in time for Valentines Day. SC ie 6. Columnists battle on men, omen, sex, friendship and women be friends without any tension? Two of Dixie Suns columnists She each side of the debate. Page 1. men 1 "stacTus: le o' 0.- ' - 1 LtttS . , - i 1 V !j 652-781- rtf '.I !' its free. BY GREGORY LAYTON Staff Writer Dixie State College has a dangerously low ratio, anto DSCs according nual campus security report. According to DSCs report, the number of ratio is one campus police officer for every 1,840 students. The FBI considers officer-to-stude- 1 " nt nt Virginia Tech a safe campus school with an ratio last ranks DSC of among all other Utah higher education instituofficer-to-stude- hal State College "tings Bldg. '5S7O0 E George, UT 84770 l,)ne: 8 (435) lesun(; jidixie.edu ments, and the next week they might be near the Browning Library and the Science Building. Were going to have a senator from each department ... at two booths that rotate different departments, Sheffield said. Sheffield and Nick see FACE TIME page 2 Center. This will help students who would like increase student writing skills, and then pitched it to the English faculty. I noticed that there to better their writing, and who have professors expecting more, said Kiera Durfee, a senior English major from Indianapolis. The purpose is to increase writing skills campus wide. Durfee is the mastermind behind the workshop operation. She had an idea of how to was a problem on campus, so I pushed the project and it was accepted, she said. A lot of students go into the Writing Center to see GRAMMAR page 3 DSC suffering officer shortage Campus police: to Student Ratio officer-to-stude- bating 111 you and Grammar subjects ranging from punctuation to comma confusion are taught by members of the Tutoring and Writing and mentally troubled students. So why is the ratio at such a number? This is due to insufficient funding, an officer-to-stude- fashion show and service project are the events to be held in honor of Black Month. Page The polling areas will be on campus every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Diagonal and at varying departments across campus. The booths will go up each Wednesday at two different departments from week to week; one week the booths could be in the auto and communication depart Grammar taught every week 4 ' t to achieve this. nt o o o O w I enlargement of officer duties, and an increase in student enrollment, said Don Reid, director of security and campus , ! i f J ( , '' 1 f k &S O a- i ) n I I I s W q v I i police. Reid said crime stats were pretty low during the bad economy. To save money, campus security used fewer personnel to cover multiple areas such as com- J O, is plaints, fines, parking permits, activities and night coverage. ! J , V r 5! ct v O O w r- - . j u 4. k ; I ti O- J I i l, ' U ' A I f It). f shouldnt have been looking at just just 10 years ahead, Reid said. We should have We tions. Student enrollment numbers at DSC has grown over the last few years, but this isnt the h only number increasing. V According to the report, campus police is seeing a rise of known drug abusers, registered sex offenders, COGTEEtTrjj PODCAST nt been looking toward becoming a university, and we should have been hiring personnel as our student enrollment went up. see SECURITY page 3 U SLIDESHOW Pot, jcs Officer soo students FROM DSC ANNUAL SCCUfRtTY REFOf?T, AND UtMIVERSlTV OR- UTAH REGISTRATION UTAH STATE REOISTRATION ORFlC VIDEO Q ONLINE DISCUSSION |
